Dr. Layne Norton
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But then it's also very disempowering as well.
And so what I'll tell people is I want to empower you that you can make change and it doesn't have to be like these crazy diets.
You can make some really small changes and have huge benefits and
Just by – again, whatever gets you there.
Whatever decreases your energy, whether it's low-carb, intermittent fasting, tracking your calories, omitting certain foods, fine, fine.
Whatever gets you there.
But I just don't see some of these narratives being super helpful overall because it gets people focused on the wrong stuff.
And it's just a very confusing overall narrative, right?
Because you got – for every camp that says this thing is bad, there's another camp saying it's the best thing ever, right?
And so people like to think they make decisions based on logic.
Most people make decisions based on emotion.
And most people – debate is actually a really poor –
it doesn't really do much.
There's a small sliver of people who will change their minds.
And I go back to this very classic study in politics where they took a group of Democrats and a group of Republicans, and they showed both information that would either refute or support a preexisting belief that they already held.
Same thing for both groups.
What they found was it didn't matter Democrat, Republican,
Both things that like objectively refute it.
Like here is the hard evidence.
It shows that what you believe is wrong.